Anti-Media
Subtitle: Ephemera on Speculative Arts
Publisher: NAi Uitgevers / Publishers Stichting
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789462080317
Subjects: Art criticism; Culture; Art
Description: Literature written in the style of computer code, electro-acoustic compositions with newly created sounds, but also subcultures with clearly identifiable manifestations, from Internet porn to neo-Nazis and anti-copyright activists: high-, low- and subculture have long been impossible to distinguish, including in the degree of their self-reference. Art and media criticism focuses mainly on the concepts, not on the objects themselves. In Anti-media, Florian Cramer shows, through a close reading of cultural expressions and analysis of media and art criticism, how these constantly refer to their tradition, language and medium while trying to subvert them.